skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of it is what goes on at home (surprise, this is basically for all education). I know I did reading as part of my schoolwork and homework. The reading I most remember was during the summer. A few were summer work related and needed reports, but the book choice was open ended. Many were not school related but encouraged by my parents.
Why, don't they get imposters? You sure run into people who can't code in coding interviews.
That's your argument of not allowing others to use MacOS on an iPad?
Oh I mean what was the intended lesson from the teacher. Read less?
I'm arguing it's a good thing California will let humans choose to man make a house wildfire trap (forest didn't pick you to put a house there) and they should apply their standard of "die in a fire if you like" to everything. I believe, counterintuitively, it will save lives.

Of course the building inspector sees the charred bodies he didn't prevent, but he doesn't see the frozen and exposed ones he created through his policies that handicap supply. The incentives of code and inspection are horribly perverse.
Cute thinking Samsung's own apps are spyware crud. Is Apple's iCloud app also crud spyware?

If you wanna see spyware crud Try buying Chinese phones with Candy Crush and third party Chines apps and games you can't uninstall and show you ads in the menus.
Very cool project, breaking the assumption that the nozzle must lay down material while moving on the same plane as the bed is a great innovation.

One nit though about the website: I found it very distracting that the images kept cycling between slides, and by the time I was halfway down the article, I realized that they were cycling even when off-screen.
Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects
I'm reaching out for some creative suggestions. I have a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old attending preschool/school, and both sets of teachers have asked for ideas from parents for skills they could show or projects they could help with in the classroom.

I have a background in computer science, primarily focused on web development these days. Additionally, I have loads of potentially useful toys at home, including a 3D printer, DIY CNC mill, webcams, Raspberry Pis, old laptops, etc.

What are some engaging activities or projects I could bring to either level of the schools that would be both fun and educational for the kids? Particularly ideas we could do as a class vs breaking into smaller groups.

I have had a couple of ideas so far
- Processing based art interactive which the kids can suggest updates for and instantly see the changes.
- Something RTLSDR based, so we can play with antennas and catch some radio waves.

Looking forward to your creative ideas and suggestions, thank you.
Two possibilities:

(1) if the <title> contents (unique reference string) doesn't match, then it's trivially detected. Typically the query is re-run (non-determinism comes in handy sometimes) or if problems persist we show an error message to the doctor

(2) if a valid <title> is hallucinated, then the wrong quote is indeed displayed on the blue background. It's still a verbatim quote, but it is up to the user to handle this.

In testing when we have maliciously shown the wrong quote, users seem to be easily able to identify. It seems "Irrelevant" is easier than "wrong" to detect.
Judging by the figures in the paper, it appears to attenuate low frequencies better than high frequencies, which is perhaps to be expected judging by experience with noise-cancelling headphones. This could be a game-changing complement to traditional acoustic treatment for recording studios and other acoustic spaces, where low frequencies are traditionally much harder to treat, requiring much larger and more expensive panels.
Looks interesting, any Proxmox support or tests were done? I would love to see how this compares to a docker in LXC and having one for each container.
Thank you, but everything is fine. I know that these thoughts are not true and the advantages of the diagnosis clearly outweigh them :).
Interestingly enough, Llama3 suffers more performance loss than Llama2 did at identical quantizations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14047

There's some speculation that a net trained for more epochs on more data learns to pack more information into the weights, and so does worse when weight data is degraded.
I'd still say that draggin a window would count as a "simulated fluid motion". Maybe not something you'd immediatly think of, but its still trying to convey the sense of motion. Just text appearing and dissappearing isn't something I personally could categorize ass the same type of animation.

And I also count myself as someone who considers 120 at least necessary (on the primary monitor)
> but isn't a tablet just a media consumption device

In my sphere, everyone with an iPad uses it for the Apple Pencil and/or video editing. Raw files for drawings get surprisingly big, once you get up into the many tens of layers, considering an artist can draw a few a day.
I'm chuckling imagining a bunch of office-workers walking around with anachronistic silk head-veils and wimples.
Sounds like the types of environments I’ve run into at either big tech cos or when you’re the tech guy in a non-tech company.

If you want to be able to experiment and change things, go to a startup.
Snapdragon Elite X is 45 TOPS as well, so Apple's isn't even the fastest ARM-based SoC NPU
I won't stand for Pilkey slander. I have worked in education. His books are certainly silly, but they are indeed a very functional gateway to get kids to enjoy reading on their own. Yes, they are immature, they are for kids. No, they won't make your kids into delinquents, especially not if they get your kids to read a lot more than they would have. I think it's important to show kids that reading doesn't have to be all textbooks and dry academics, it can be fun and enjoyable, because why would they ever read of their own volition if by their perception it isn't fun at all?
I have a 3rd gen iPad Pro 12.9 for reading and other light activity. I haven't found any reason to upgrade for the past few years. I don't see myself getting another iPad unless this one dies or if Apple actually unlocks the potential of the hardware.
That's an interesting take. I've been experimenting with reducing the overall rendered html size to just structure and content and using the LLM to extract content from that. It works quite well. But I think your approach might be more efficient and faster.
Don't worry, this year they'll get to it. Honest!

https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/here-we-go-again-el-cami...
Clumsily phrased. What I meant is that iPhones or similar priced smartphones are affordable and common for say middle class in countries with similar purchase power to Eastern European countries. You’d have to go to poorer countries like Vietnam or Indonesia for iPhones to be “out of reach”, given the immense value it provides.

Heck now I see even Vietnam iPhone is #1 vendor with a 28% market penetration according to statcounter. That’s more than I thought, even though I was just there…

Speaking of India, they’re at 4% there. That’s closer to being luxury.
If one machine can only handle a hundred transactions per second, and you might ever receive more than that, you have to spread the work across several machines, probably by assigning primary keys that aren't (mostly) sequential.
use nordvpn and set your butt in like Bulgaria and try again :)
I would also much rather use a computer than a tablet. The same was true for desktop apps vs web apps, but web apps have gotten so much better and are cross-platform. Desktop apps instead have become repackaged web-apps. All that's to say that the disparity between tablet and computer apps will fade. Basically anything that's web based could already be on-par (if it supports Safari equally well) with the new keyboard accessory. Until Apple makes touch-screen laptops, there's always going to be some workflows that work better on a tablet.
That's a good point. I meant "technical" in the narrow sense of working with modern or cutting edge technology. For example, to my knowlege he was not an avid or early user of the internet, yet he seems to have a good sense of the effect it has on us. Technologists are constantly trying to predict the future but the humanists usually hit closer to the mark.
They are also mostly offline/local-first. Most of their best known games come on cartridges and while they have an online component and may require internet connectivity for updates, the main gameplay is either single player (Mario, Zelda) or local multiplayer (Smash Bros, Mario Kart). Splatoon is more of an exception.

And as for they system, the Switch doesn't even have a web browser (not officially at least).

That internet connectivity is limited is a feature. For parents who want to keep their kids away from the wild web, and for those who want to disconnect or have limited access. Nintendo is the only one in the mainstream doing this.
It's still lower than Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite X (45 TOPS)
Dmitri Alperovitch on the New Cold War with China
If they're doing inference on edge devices, one challenge I see is protecting model weights. If you want to deploy a proprietary model on an edge AI chip, the weights can get stolen via side-channel attacks [1]. Obviously this isn't a concern for open models, but I doubt Apple would go the open models route.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-prevent-ai-power-usage-secrets
I think the hope is that the LLM would find the needle in the haystack with more accuracy. But in jobs that matters, you check the results.
Tsmc being the biggest let them experiment at 10x the rate. It turns out they had the right business model that Intel didn’t notice was there, it just requires dramatically lower margins and higher volumes and far lower paid engineers.
You’re arguing against my point while going on to make the same point.

Please note that I said “optimised” and not “quality”. The GP said quality but I deliberately didn’t. I want to be clear that myself and the author were strictly talking about code that is optimised for execution speed.

There are a few other issues with your comment too. Such as conflating inlining with code deduplication wrt generics.
Not OP, but I do this too.

I generally ask the purpose of the question.

Sometimes there are valid reasons for why they look at very strong algorithm skills and then I simply admit it's not really my cup of tea nor my passion.

Sometimes they answer variations of "it's standard/it's how we do it" so then I propose whether we would like to code something more similar to what the daily job would be to which they generally play along, even happily.

But if some don't I then say that I don't see a fit.

Might be awkward but...who cares? I don't, they won't after 5 seconds the interview's over either.
One Social Security runs out of money the first option on the table will probably be to top it up from the general fund though. And once that's been turned on it will never be turned off. (MMT but only for old people.)
Folks: Don't forget to try it out yourself!

https://www.beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html

This triggered amazingly sweet memories for me, am I alone?

My only wish would be to have pinch-zooming on mobile.
I know a lot of people here hate Musk but he's actually pretty good at the rocket stuff. If you see him going around being interviewed on Everyday Astronaut he knows the design and trade offs of every part. I doubt you'd see that with Boeing management. It's a bit of a shame he's shifted to ranting on Twitter/X.
It's not bad coffee like Folgers. Sure, r/coffee connoisseurs that only buy $20 beans, $500 grinders, and $500 espresso machines won't drink the Costco stuff, but for the average coffee enjoyer they're decent quality. I doubt they're subsidized since you'll also find $5 pounds at Trader Joe's.
Syllabus: Large Language Models, Content Moderation, and Political Communication
Yes, the only real difference is passive harvesting of email/passwords. Anything targeted is similarly insecure.
> capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second

Assuming these are BF16 ops, by comparison, an H100 from NVIDIA will do 1979 teraFLOPS BF16.

So this "Neural Engine" from Apple is 50x slower than an H100 PCIe version.
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My understanding is that these were all existing warnings that were off by default (you needed to pass -Wall to see) that are now displayed by default; I don't see any indication in the patch thread that there were corresponding behavior changes.
To be fair to Nintendo, they're very much still in the former category of making good products every few years. The switch was originally released 7 years ago, which is ancient in the world of consumer electronics.
Did you reply to the right comment? Feels like we’re talking about different things altogether.
It's been over 7 years since the Switch was released on March 3, 2017. It's absolutely amazing how much they were able to squeeze out of it through software ingenuity, but it's potential is maxed out now. There were certainly some gameplay/enjoyment tradeoffs that had to be made in Tears of the Kingdom. It's probably financially impractical to keep getting the parts to make the "old" Switch vs. refreshing the hardware.
They didn’t exist for the first 8 of those years and didn’t have real support until even later so…
There were significant frame rate drops in Breath of the Wild (one of the tent pole games for the platform). Beefier hardware could have improved that experience.
Unfortunately I don't believe that accuracy will scale "multiplicitively". You'll typically only marginally improve beyond 95%... and how much is enough?

Even with such a system, which will still have some hallucination rate, adding Deterministic Quoting on top will still help.

It feels to me we are a long way off LLM systems with trivial rates of hallucination
Is fast and cheap always better though.
No love for NIBBLES.BAS? I played that way more than Gorillas. And Scorched Earth -- that's a name I haven't heard for a long time.
I just go into Reader Mode any time it’s supported. A lot of design work is already solved.

Gosh now I’m imagining if people did this with books. At least chapter books are mostly the same.
Feeling Misinformed? Perceived Difficulty in Evaluating Info in News Avoidance
Maybe it's just a bad example, it doesn't look much different than what I can do in C#.
Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured
That's all well and good but nowhere did OP mention that it was an Apple computer at all. All they mentioned was this:

>"I have a spare laptop with only 8GB of RAM"
Yeah I buy this theory.

The problem I have with it is that for this to be a reasonably effective strategy you should change the arbitrary metric every few years because otherwise it is likely to be hacked and has the potential to turn into a negative signal rather than positive. Essentially your false positives can dominate by "studying to the test" rather than "studying".

I'd say the same is true for college admissions too... because let's be honest, I highly doubt a randomly selected high school student is going to be significantly more or less successful than the current process. I'd imagine the simple act of applying is a strong enough natural filter to make this hypothesis much stronger (in practice, but see my prior argument)

People (and machines) are just fucking good at metric hacking. We're all familiar with Goodhart's Law, right?
Fuck, in 12 hours time I can get from Germany to USA Atlanta no problem, probably still 1-2 hours extra time.
That's an interesting hypothesis; what would be some examples of oikophobia?
Although you are entirely correct in a technical sense, and it's common to serve hot brewed coffee cold, the opposite is so rarely desired that it will be considered 'weird' (in the sense of 'unusual') 9 out of 10 times.

Every extra process involved in making a coffee is going to add complexity and time to the workflow, which many cafes will elect to charge extra for.

There is some consternation in Australia about paying more for iced coffees compared to hot ones too:

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/food-and-drink/articl...
Not the OP, but the graphs over time are a nice touch.
No. There was relatively little actual fighting during the BLitzkrieg. It was about speed and the cutting of communications (in the military sense of roads and bridges rather than radio and telephone). France also had staggeringly poor command structures and they were so invested in the Maginot Line scenario that they simply didn't take the invasion seriously at first.

Surprisingly, one of the best histories of Blitzkrieg I've read was a pop-history book (just called 'Blitzkrieg') by Len Deighton, better known for his spy novels. What it lacks in detail, biographical material and so on is made up for by its broad scope, going from industrial production and methods during the interwar rearmament period through to the logistics of the BEF evacuation at Dunkirk.
You'll want to upgrade to produce generative content - you just don't know it yet.
Except they still do the same kind of bullshit marketing today.
The Wii was two Gamecubes glued together and set records. It's a winning formula.
>hippocratic oath

As if that meant something for regular doctors. Agree with all your post and would like to share a some anecdata in case it's good for anyone here someday.

When I was around 16 I lost a premolar (I had an extra one, that messed up the real one, both died and fell down), all dentists immediately suggested I get an implant. Reasons given where:

* Your face will deform (no, really) because of your missing tooth

* Your other teeth will start moving and will get misaligned and fall as well

* Your bone around that area will disappear and you'll need a bone graft and you could die

I read a bunch about that online and came to know that implants do massive damage to your mandible and that's not to be taken lightly. Average implant life, if all goes well, is ~20 years, then you have to do it again, each time you do it you weaken your mandible and palate bones significantly. Back then I thought, in 20 years I'll be in my 30s, nowhere near being old and I would start having issues with this for life. I decided not to get it, and guess what? I'm 37 now and have never had a single problem because of that, ever. Every single time I go to a dentist I get the same speech, over and over, "get an implant or you'll die, do you want me to book the appointment now?" "no, I just want some cleaning done, thanks". Dentists are as unscrupulous as it can get.
I just have a bar in my apartment in a doorway. Sometimes when I walk by I do 3 - 8 pull ups, then go on my way. Do that a few times a day and you’re doing pretty good. Sometimes I’ll do a few L pull ups as well.

If I’m doing pull ups in the gym I’ll do 3 sets of 7. That’s the most I can do at the moment.
Having worked with both internal company web components and internal company jquery-based components, I vastly prefer the former.

Yes, ad-hoc fixing styles and behavior from the outside is nice. But when every internal style/class/element is technically part of the API surface, you quickly end up with extremely brittle code.

Suddenly every tiny change (bug fixes, refactors, new feature) in the component library has the potential to break the app in unexpected ways, and the result is an inability to upgrade. Happens all the time.

With shadow DOM, this problem basically go away (depending on how it’s implemented)
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Doing it on Linux would make people ask "why isnt it on my distro" a LOT sooner. Thus adding complexity while you are trying to prove the concept.
Build quality, battery life, clean os install, and the value held over time has no Windows equivalent even at some much higher price points.
If this fact began in the last decade, I'd agree with you, but the linked Scholastic report shows this phenomenon pre-dates phones. Interest in reading at different ages has held steady dating back to at least 2010. 2010 is before most kids had their own smartphone. It also isn't like all kids suddenly get a smartphone at age 9.
If any HNers are looking for a cheap entry point into the style without spending $250+ on a beautiful bunch of laboratory glass ware, there's the puckpuck[1], which sits on top of an aeropress and turns it into functionally the same device as the Yama towers - slow controlled valve dripping cold water at a controlled rate onto a bed of coffee and a paper filter over the course of hours.

I've found it a nice way to play with the style without investing the money and space. Still want one of those towers if I ever see them cheap though.

[1] https://puckpuck.me/ - no connection, just a customer.
I think it was Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly podcast who said that all these companies don't really care about privacy. Apple takes billions of dollar a year to direct data towards Google via the search defaults. Clearly privacy has a price. And I suspect it will only get worse with time as they keep chasing the next quarter.

Tim Cook unfortunately is so captured in that quarterly mindset of 'please the share holders' that it is only a matter of time.
Any time I try not to use React and just go vanilla, the main frustration is how much time I waste being imperative with UI state and event listeners and such. I don’t fricking want to manually manage all the pieces! That’s the least interesting part of developing software.
As someone outside of the AWS trap, I am amazed at how many services people are saying you must use to have file uploads. 2 storage buckets that are charged in 10 different ways, a CDN, a processing server, a "lambda", "media convert", virus scanning and a third party service for resizing.. Extremely unnecessarily over complicated and probably overly expensive.
Because to actually have those types of conversations you have to have legitimate experience. To be a bit flippant, here's a relevant xkcd[0]. To be less so, "in groups" are pretty good at detecting others in their groups. I mean can you not talk to another <insert anything where you have domain expertise, including hobbies> and not figure out who's also a domain expert? It's because people "in-group" understand nuance of the subject matter.

[0] https://xkcd.com/451/
Did you not have drills where you weren’t told it was a drill?
Does anyone know of any good reading material / papers on effective road maintenance and construction? Asphalt quality, longevity, cost, processes, success stories, etc. Cold weather climates would be a bonus.
No numbers on battery life improvements?
A lot of criminals would make more with a real job. Sometimes it is cultural (having a real job is seen as weak). Sometimes the crime seems like it would make more money than it actually does for the work input.

I asked one 19-year-old defendant who had just been given a 30-year sentence for armed robbery with an AK-47 how much he actually got from the robbery? "$2000. $1000 for me, $1000 for my cousin." Ugh :(
I remember reading about this and then finally I got to see some devices on sale in stores. By then though there was no hype and everyone had moved on.

The fall of Magic Cap (there's "General Magic the Movie") seems similar to the similarly named Magic Leap. They both thought they were onto something huge, and were the ones to do it first, do it best, and do it the most completely--in secret until the unveil. They were building the entire ecosystem in a vacuum. It's important to test your reality bubble with the real world sometime before you've made everything to production quality.

Apple's 'limited success' for the Vision Pro was a better business outcome than the much longer development cycle of either Magic Cap or Magic Leap 1. Of course if it had been wildly successful it could have been the exception--their time & money, their risk choice.
Yeah. It’s good with YOLO and Dino though. My M2 Max can compute Dino embeddings faster than a T4 (which is the GPU in AWS’s g4dn instance type).